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Victoria paints about themes of identity: exploring what it means to have a sense of self, and how it manifests itself in the world. In her work this sometimes appears (or disappears), leading to questions about whether the image is representing something from current reality: observation – or from personal or hand-me-down (collective) memory: imagination.
GALLERY OF WORK
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Sussex Pond :
Water -based oils on linen 55.5 x 82 cm</p><br />
<p>My art studio is down a mud track, off a tiny Wealden country road. As well as it being home to my studio, it is also home to heritage cows, a trickling pond, an Oast house, to name a few. As the pond is near the South Downs Way, I thought the pond was a dew pond; dew ponds are small, round ponds sited in hollows, made by digging a pit and lining it with clay. They're found in a few dry, hilly places, like the South Downs, where there's no water running down the hillsides. This is because the rock underneath the surface, mostly chalk, is full of small openings and water drains away underground. I have now learnt that the soil around my studio is not chalk and does not drain easily, it is clay, thick and muddy, holding the water as firmly as a glass. If the pond near my studio isn't a dew pond, then what is it and what shall I name the painting of the pond?</p><br />
<p>Recently I discovered that there was an old English recipe called Sussex Pond Pudding and giggling with delight as I felt that this was a much more fitting name for my painting. Sussex Pond was born<br /><br />
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Shepherd's Hut and Car :
Water -based oils on linen 55.5 x 82 cm</p><br />
<p>As part of my series on identity, I painted a couple of paintings of straight washing lines; Blue Towel and What Would Happen If I Wasn't Here? I wanted to explore the different ways washing was dried. I worked locally to find a different style of washing line. I produced two paintings; one with washing, and one without. Shephard's Hut and Car was formed. There is something between the two objects, the Shepherd's hut that sits on wheels, made for the ease of moving around and a car, also on wheels, designed to move around too.
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Washing Basket :
Sharpie pen on heavy weight paper 40 x 40cm
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Baptism :
Water-based oils on board 35 x 27cm<br /><br />
I have a practice of portrait work and an sometimes asked to paint nude, I explore this by presenting interesting layouts.
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Blue Towel :
Water -based oils on linen 55.5 x 82 cm</p><br />
<p>Part of the series on Identity
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A Year of Washing :
Water -based oils on linen 55.5 x 82 cm</p><br />
<p>Part of the series on Identity
